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There is no panacea in the treatment of interstitial cystitis. Supratrigonal cystectomy and substitution cystoplasty should be reserved for those few patients for whom all other conservative remedies have failed and whose disabilities are such that supravesical urinary diversion might otherwise be considered. Such strict selection criteria are necessary in view of the enigmatic nature of the disease, the subjective nature of symptoms, and the fact that this is a relatively major operative procedure for a condition which might otherwise offer little risk to health or life.
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Webster GD, Maggio MI (1989) The management of chronic interstitial cystitis by substitution cystoplasty. J Uroi 141: 287–291
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Webster, G.D. (1990). Editorial Comment. In: Hanno, P.M., Staskin, D.R., Krane, R.J., Wein, A.J. (eds) Interstitial Cystitis. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3293-6_26
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